Are you a fan of opening themes for a variety of Japanese video games? Anyone who’s played an RPG from lesser known developers has undoubtedly, and possibly unknowingly, stumbled across an opening theme from a sound team known as Elements Garden. Consisting of five members, Noriyasu Agematsu, Junpei Fujita, Hitoshi Fujima, Daisuke Kikuta, and Nakayama, Elements Garden has contributed opening themes and soundtracks to a variety of popular games and series, such as the opening theme to White Knight Chronicles for the PlayStation 3 or the soundtrack for Wild Arms XF on the PSP.
This single contains the opening theme to a PS2 game entitled Galaxy Angel II Eigou Kaiki no Koku, which never saw release outside Japan, as well as an original piece, both sung by Yui Sakakibara. Yui Sakakibara is a notable singer/songwriter with a multitude of solo albums, as well as voice actor in Japan, who is featured in a variety of anime and games.
So let’s take a jump into the review to see if these angel wings actually work! (more…)
